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Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610). In this book, Bersani and Dutoit study Caravaggio's attempts to move beyond the tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat as he proposed a radically new mode of connectedness: a nonerotic ...Read MoreMany critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610). In this book, Bersani and Dutoit study Caravaggio's attempts to move beyond the tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat as he proposed a radically new mode of connectedness: a nonerotic sensuality relevant to the most exciting attempts in our own time to rethink, perhaps even to reinvent community. 26 illustrations, 8 in color.Read Less

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for the advanced caravaggist

Saw reference to this title in the Norton Simon lecture "The Moment of Caravaggio" and picked up a copy of the book here on alibris. The usual October leftist Freudian dialogue, obscure French philosphes footnoted; what can I say, I have always been a sucker for this sort of thing. If you are even reading this review, then its likely up your alley as well. Not recommended as a introduction to Caravaggio or his work, but something that will interest the advanced reader or avid semiotician.

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